Social Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help develop short-term and long-term strategic plans for the social care sector.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The independent commission into adult social care is underway, developing plans for how we move to a National Care Service based on greater choice and control, joined-up health and care services, and higher quality of care.
Phase 1 of the commission will report this year, making recommendations to address immediate priorities for adult social care, laying the groundwork for long-term reform and setting us on the path to deliver a National Care Service.
In the meantime the Government is already putting the foundations in place, enabling choice and control through record investment in the Disabled Facilities Grant, including £723 million this year, improving care quality through the first ever adult social care Fair Pay Agreement backed by £500 million, and joining up services by improving national data and digital infrastructure and developing neighbourhood health services.
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